Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-01-08

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 sole damage. Four men were killed outright, others are still buried in the the deor1s and It Is not known whether they are alive or not. Tho number injured as Tar a. known is thirteen and some of these are feared to be fatally hurt
 | PANAMA, January 3-The canal vork IS progressing. Contractors are sstis- fed, although they are working against difficulties m consequence of the tail end of the rainy season, and the celebration of the December holidays. The sanitary record Is good.
 SAS FRANCISCO, January 3.-lhe cars | on the Geary and Sutter street lines rAn tonight for the first time in the evening since the strike began. No trouble of any kind occurred.
 BALTIMORE, Jsn1sry 3.-Dispatche. were received in this city this morning from Westminster. Frt derrick, Emms tt.- burg. and other towns ID western Mary land, stating that the inhabitants are considerably excited over violent shocks and rumblings which had awakened them from sleep and continued at interval from lls3O last night till early this morning. No damage has been done ss far ss can be learned, but ss the cOun- try IS mountainous, the people are sp- prehensive of grave trouble. Congress man Shaw who lives st Weetminis,er, says he was awakened by what sounded like the blasting of rocks, and the pie lures were shaken from the walls ID other houses He heard two distinct shocks m rapid succession. The mer cury at Westminster was four degrees below Esro thIs morning.
 WASHINGTON, January 3.-Col. La- mont sad today the president was much improved and seemed to be benefited by his New Years day experience. He re- mained ID bis private room to-day, how ever, and received no callers. He eI- poets to be in his public office tomorrow as usual
 SAN ,FRASCIsCo. January 3.-Best < Belcher II l5. ChUllar 1L00. Checker l.S5, Con. Cal Virginia 22O0, Peer 75. Peer less SJ, Opbir 1900. Savage 1000, Hale S Norcross g. %. Confidence. 10 co. Potoa', 1000. Sierra Nevada ITS, Union Con. 5.75 Utah 8 OO. Yellow Jacket 7.25. Mt. Dla- bio, 30
 CHICAGO, January 3-The Market Journal says: California fruits are DO longer coming forward and there will be DO more arrivals this season except raisins and oranges. Oranges will be- gin to RrrIve from the middle tO the last of January. It will also be remem- bered that Florida has this seCson only about two-thirds of crop of oranges.
 SACRAMENTO, January 3-The legisls- ture convened 70 day. but failed tn or ganize. This defsrs ballotIbg for U. 5. senator until January 18th.
 WAsHISGroS, January 3-SenstOr AL drich, chairman of the senate committee on transportation routes to railroads, authorizes the publication of the report of that committee on the subject of rail road frelghis iD The United States and other countries, the study of which, for the purpose of settling certain questions pertaining to interstate commerce., has long been Tn progress by his committee. The appointment of the senate commit tee on inter state commerce somewhat notifies the work originally mapped out by the committee on transportation routes to railroads, and that committee decided not to take testimony, as it was authorized to do. but to conduct epe- cisl line of inquiry tO ascertain If possi- ble. the relative progress of the various gram producing cOnntries. The com plete report makes 800 pages of printed matter and contains many valuable ta- bles and much information on the sub ject of transportation, gathered from nearly every country in the world.
 DENVER, January 3-A. E. Nickers, one of the most prominent oolored men in the city, was brutslly sssassinsted m his barber shop some time last night. Ills body lying upon the floor of the shop in great pool of cosgulsted blood was discovered at an early hour this morning. The assassin had struck his victim on the back of the head with a beer bottle, knocking him seDsslsss and producing fracture of the skull, then took a razor, cut his throat from ear to ear, sevsring the jugulHr vein and wind pipe, leaving a gaping wound SIX inches long and two inches across, exposing the spinal column. winch had been part ly severed by the blow from the razor. Nickers had S300 on his person late last night. and as only $6 were found on the body after the murder, it is supposed the crime WAS committed for the pur- pose of robbery Charles Green. em- ployed by Nickers, snd who rooms iD the laIter's hOuse, has been arrested and ,.ver bali the money found hid under his bed. Nickers leaves a wife and three children.